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To: Paladin2

Have ballistics findings been released, or is that also covered under the gag order?

As an aside, seems I’d read somewhere (I could be mistaken) that these grand juries are handpicked retired judges and former prosecutors - anyone know anything about that?


13 posted on 11/12/2015 7:20:42 AM PST by Moira Davidson (Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family - in another city.)
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To: Moira Davidson
Have ballistics findings been released

No.

14 posted on 11/12/2015 7:23:40 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Moira Davidson
Grand jury is more or less randomly selected. In Texas, grand juries used to be (up until a few months ago) picked by a buddy system, and that system was handpicked from the prosecutor's buddies.

That said, "random" selection, supervised by judges, is NOT random. A judge can dismiss any prospective grand juror, using a pretext.

18 posted on 11/12/2015 7:48:23 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Moira Davidson

Look up the story of Vic Feazell. (sp) A Grand Jury was seated for 11 months and could not get an indictment. Another one was seated and an indictment was returned in 4 days. Later after Feazell’s acquittal members of the second Grand Jury came forward and said they were threatened by IRS agents that their lives would be made miserable if they didn’t vote for an indictment.


23 posted on 11/12/2015 9:42:50 AM PST by VerySadAmerican
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